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Taliban: A Bibliometric Investigation, Javid Ahmad Dar, Ufaira Yaseen Shah, Fayaz Ahmad Loan, Aadil Bashir, Manzoor Hussain

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The primary objective of this study is to identify the global research output on Taliban during the period of 25 years spanning from 1996-2020. Specific objectives are to analyze the distribution of literature, publication trends, authorship patterns, institutional productivity, collaboration networks, and prolific funding agencies. The data was harvested from the Web of Science Core Collection. A total of 614 records were retrieved on Taliban having 4416 total citations. The highest output was recorded in 2002, with a share of 7.83% of overall literature. The citation pattern depicted a fluctuating, the highest share being received in the year 2002 (14.47%), …

A Study On Preference Of Reading Print And Digital Resources Of M.Ed. Students In Madurai District, Dr S. Anbalagan

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The main purpose of this research is to look into a study on M.Ed. students' preferences for reading print and digital resources in Madurai district. The current study chose 300 M.Ed. students in Madurai District as the sample using a random sampling technique. For the study, the investigator used the normative survey method. A scale of reading preference for print and digital materials was utilised. The data was segregated and consolidated with the help of Microsoft Excel. SPSS version 21 was used to perform the required statistical analysis. The findings demonstrate that there is a substantial link between M.Ed. students' …

Challenges In Accessing Agricultural Information Sources And Services By Farmers In Edu Local Government Area Of Kwara State, Sherif Kunle Yusuf, Emmanuel Olorunnishola Adio, Singya Zhimwang Zwalmam, Saka Bamidele Suberu

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Agriculture play significant role towards sustainability of developing nations’ economy particularly Nigeria by providing abundant raw materials required by the industry, as well as ensures food security and a healthy nation. This study examines the challenges of accessing agricultural information sources and services by farmers in Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State. Survey method was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprise of 16066 from which 78 farmers of the study area were selected using stratified random sampling and purposive sampling procedure. From the copies of questionnaires administered only 60 were duly completed and returned. …

Knowledge Analysis Of Anganwadi Workers During Covid-19 Pandemic Situation In Paralakhemundi Municipality, Gosani Block,Gajapati District Of Odisha: An Analysis, Samir Kumar Panigrahi, Puspanjali Jena

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The present paper is based on a survey method while attempts have been made to assess the knowledge of the Anganwadi workers who are working as frontline workers during the widespread COVID-19 epidemic at Gosani block of Paralakhemundi municipality, Gajapati district. For the study, structured questionnaire was distributed among the total workers i.e. 350 covering 163 Anganwadi worker centres of 16 wards of Paralakhemundi Municipality. The survey was conducted from March to April 2021 at the beginning stage of the second outbreak of COVID-19. The main purpose of the study is to understand the knowledge of Anganwadi workers with regards …

The Impact Of Teaching Il On Academic Performance Of Students Of School Of Public Health (Sph) Of University Of Health And Allied Sciences (Uhas), Hawa Osman Ms

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The study explores the impact of the teaching of IL skills on the academic performance of undergraduate students of the SPH of the UHAS. The study uses primary data collected from 54 students with the help of a questionnaire and analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 21. The result of the data was represented by frequencies and percentages. The study found that there is actually a positive (higher grade) relationship between the skills learnt from the study of the course and academic performance. Specifically, they can find the information they need, analyse the information, and use …

Public Library Organisation Analysis For Hybrid Library Governance Model In Indonesia, Salahudin Salahudin, Achmad Nurmandi, Rendra Agusta, Amirullah Amirullah

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This article aims to evaluate the ability of the National Library of Indonesia in its function as a public library. It also describes the ability of the National Library of Indonesia organization in the context of Hybrid Library Governance (HLG). The article, through a qualitative descriptive approach, reveals the dimensions of the organization and shows the Indonesian National Library has formalised a support system in which there are several regulations that support the governance of the library. Moreover, within the dimensions of the process, national libraries have a budget, human resources, and technologies that support their performance. However, the library …

Perceptions Of Postgraduate Research Scholars About Using Digital Library Resources: A Case Study Of District Peshawar, Shakeel Ahmad, Dr. Amjad Reba, Dr. Rahim Khan, Dr. Syed Munir Ahmad, Jalal Ud Din

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For the last more than a year, Covid-19 pandemic has had a devastating influence and impact on the entire world phenomenal impact on all aspects of role in shifting people to the virtual world. The main aim of the study was to explore the perceptions of Postgraduate Research Scholars about adapting Digital Libraries. Using a quantitative research design, 100 male and female postgraduate research scholars were selected through simple random sampling from two universities. A 5-point Likert scale with closed ended questionnaire was used for gathering data from the participants. SPSS version 23 was used to analyze the collected data. …

Smartphone Usage Among University Students During The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Study, Pinky Bhagat, Somipam R. Shimray

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The unusual lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic has exploded globally, revealing the whole population and touching all areas in our lives: education, work, politics, entertainment, economy, markets, etc. Online teaching and learning during pandemics have exposed students to technology, ultimately resulting in ingesting of digital media. In this favor, the research aims to determine the use of smartphones among university students during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Therefore, this study aims to examine the use of smartphones by university students during the Covid-19 pandemic. This study collected 165 respondents from Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A central university), Lucknow. This study …

Knowledge Transfer And Knowledge Sharing Tools Used By Employees Of Higher Education Institutions Of Pakistan: Mediating Role Motivation, Liaquat Ali Rahoo, Muhammad Memon, Sirajul Haq Kandhro, Zareen Abbasi, Muhammad Ali Khan

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The aim of study is to examine the impact of knowledge sharing tools (i.e., technology and organization rewards) on knowledge transfer in the Higher Education Institutions (HEIS) of Sindh, Pakistan. The study utilized quantitative method. The population of the study was the employees who are working in HEIs of Sindh Province. The cluster random sampling technique was implemented to collect primary data from 750 respondents. The survey method was used in questionnaire to collect the data from employees of HEIs. The results of the research study indicate that knowledge sharing tools and organization rewards and technology have a significant impact …

Adoption And Utilization Of Electronic Databases By Postgraduate Students In Selected Universities In North-Central, Nigeria, Lawal Abubakar, Abdulwahab Olanrewaju Issa, Zainab Olanihun Ambali

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ABSTRACT The study aimed at identifying the types of e-databases available, perceptions towards the ease and extent of use, and usefulness of the adopted e-databases and identify the challenges associated with the use of adopted e-databases by the postgraduate students in the selected universities, in North- central, Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive survey design where set of questionnaires were used to collect data from 1726 postgraduate students across five universities in North-central, Nigeria. The study found that Internet facility, e-journals, e-books, science direct, AGORA, DOAJ and TEEAL are the major e-databases available and accessible in selected libraries. The e-databases used …

Importance Of Special Libraries For History And International Studies Learners’ With Special Needs In South-East, Nigeria, Chidi Amaechi Ph.D

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The study is an impactful investigation carried out in South-East, Nigeria. The study's rationale was to understand the importance of a special library among special learners. Specifically, it seeks to ascertain the importance of a special library among learners of History and International studies. Several scholarly journal articles were reviewed. Documentaries and published materials found in libraries and the internet were mostly reviewed especially on the relevance in ensuring quality discussion of the issues at stake. From studies reviewed, it was gathered that special learners especially those in History and International studies need information centers where they could gather all …

Influence Of Ict Use On Business Performance Of Small And Medium Enterprises In Port-Harcourt Nigeria., Okoro Obinna Jeremiah, Yacob Haliso, Otuza Evans Chima

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The significant contributions of the Small and Medium Enterprises towards developing the economy of any given country cannot be over-emphasized. SMEs are attributed to be engines of economic development especially as experienced in most developed countries of the world. However, the contribution of SMEs in developing countries has been confirmed as poor. This assertion is not farfetched from what is obtainable in Nigeria. Research has shown the performance of SMEs to be poor especially in Port-Harcourt. In this study, attempts are made to examine the influence of ICT use on the performance of Small and Medium Enterprises in Port-Harcourt …

Information Needs Versus Information Services: Assessing Predictors Of Secondary School Students With Visual Impairment Satisfaction At School Library Media Centres In South-Eastern Nigeria, Samuel K. Ibenne, Oluwole Olumide Durodolu

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This study investigated the information needs versus Information services by assessing predictors of Secondary School Students with Visual Impairment Satisfaction at School Library Media Centres in South-Eastern Nigeria. This research embraced a positivist research paradigm in which quantitative research method was used to gather statistical data and generalizing it across various groups of respondents in order to elucidate a certain phenomenon.The population of the study is 95 consisting of 84 students with visual impairment enrolled in the secondary schools selected for the study and 11 SLMC personnel who are responsible for services to the students with visual impairment.The study revealed …

The Influence Of Covid-19 Pandemic On The Access To Health Information By The Elderly In Edo State, Nigeria, Confidence Reghagwa Idjai Mr., Ono Ebireri-Ojo Mr

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The study assessed the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the access to health information by the elderly persons in Edo State, Nigeria. The descriptive research design was adopted for the study. The main population of the study are elderly persons in Edo Central, Edo State, Nigeria. Edo central comprises a total of 33,499 elderly people ages 65 years and above. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 500 respondents from the 5 local government areas in Esan Central. The instrument used for data collection in this study was a structured interview and questionnaires by the researchers and five research …

Information Management In Television Media Library: A Study Conducted In Pride East Entertainments Private Limited, Assam, Rosy Chakraborty, Sanjay Kumar Singh Professor

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In the year 1959, Television media has started as an experiment and since then it is a part of media in India. This paper examines the information archives management of Television media from a technical as well as an intellectual point of view and discusses how they organize and manage the information in these organizations. (“Television”,2021) Television media are very rich in providing digital information, which is electronically accessible, and therefore for an effective information cycle, archives were developed in such places. Here, information can be found in different formats i.e. .mpeg, .mp3, .mp4, .mov, etc., and in different types …

Organization And Accessibility Of Information Resources In Federal High Court Libraries In North-East Geo-Political Zone Of Nigeria, Muhammad Murtala Ibrahim, Amina Barkindo

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Information organization and accessibility are part of the core functions of any special library. The need for organization is necessary to accomplished a planned library's goals. Effective organization provides effective retrieval and use of the resources and also saves time for both the user and the information professional. This study highlights and describe the method of information organization and access in the Federal High Courts libraries in North-eastern geo-political zone of Nigeria. It also discusses the various ways the federal high court libraries Organize information resources, the means for information access and the challenges associated with the organization and accessibility …

Gamification In E-Library Services, Folashade Oyinlola Adedokun, Norasnita Binti Ahmad Ph.D, Suraya Binti Miskon Ph.D

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The advent of mobile apps, smartphones, laptops have made gamification relevant in the last decade. Gamification is an act of using game elements or mechanics to encourage or motivate learners in a non-game context. Examples of game elements are leaderboards, points, badges, narrative, reward, achievement, competition, etc. A Digital library or e-library is a library that stores information in digital form or fulfills information needs in digital format from external information sources to be distributed to users both registered as specific customers and the community. In general, an e-library aims to meet the library users' information, education, research, and …

Library Role In Promoting Moral Values In Nigerian Education, Odion Evans Kakulu Mr, David O. Okhakhu Mr.

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The study examines the role of the library in promoting moral value in Nigeria education. Based on the findings, the paper reveals that lack of functional libraries in school systems to educate, inform plays a significant role as the cause of moral crises which lead to the erosion of our moral values and emergence of other vices such as Boko Haram, kidnapping, corruption and bad leadership that create setback in Nigeria economy. The paper investigated moral value, library in education and library as primary agents of moral restoration in Nigeria education. The paper also considers morality as a tool for …

Application Of Ict Tools And Techniques In Collection Building And Development, Madhabilata Mallick, Krushna Chandra Panda Prof.

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Examines the application of varied ICT tools and techniques in the domain of collection building, development and management. Discusses how ICT has substantially impacted every sphere of academic library activity and more so in collection building and management. Explains the impact of IT on different stages of collection development process-right from the identification and selection of items to weed out obsolete documents. Enumerate sources for selection of recommended items; varied information Channels to identify the needed documents and discusses some popular selection tools and their functions. Explains some of the helpful LIS software and their modules that support collection …

Pioneering Public Space Reading Park In The Karangsong Mangrove Forest Ecotourism Area, Indramayu Regency, West Java Province, Indonesia, Sukaesih Sukaesih, Yunus Winoto, Falih Ijlal Septian

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The eco-tourism area of the Karangsong mangrove forest is one of the educational tourism areas that is very useful in providing knowledge and insight to tourists about the environment and nature conservation, because in this tourist area there are various types of flora and fauna. To complete information about the types of flora and fauna that exist in the Karangsong eco-tourism area, it is necessary to have sources of information in the form of reading materials, infographics, or in visual form. Departing from this, it encourages researchers to collaborate in pioneering a public reading room park in the Karangsong eco-tourism …

Users’ Sentiment Analysis Toward National Digital Library Of India: A Quantitative Approach For Understanding User Perception, Ritu Sharma, Sarita Gulati, Amanpreet Kaur, Rupak Chakravarty

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Sentiment analysis is also known as opinion mining. Sentiment analysis is contextual mining of text which identifies and extracts subjective information in textual data. It is extremely used by business, educational organizations, and social media monitoring to gain the general outlook of the wide public regarding their product and policy. The current study looks for gaining insights into user reviews on the National Digital Library of India (NDLI) mobile app (android and iOS). For this purpose, sentiment analysis will be used. It yields an average of 3.64/5 ratings based on 11,861 reviews. The dataset includes a total of 4560 user …

Information Marketing Through Social Media During Covid-19: A Study On A Public University Library In Bangladesh, Md. Mozammel Bhuyan, Nusrat Jannat Bipasha

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose: The main objective of the paper is to investigate the status of using Social Media for information marketing during COVID-19 at Dhaka University Library (DUL), Bangladesh. More specifically the study aims are to identify the user’s tendency of using Social Media; explore the purposes of library professionals and library users of using Social Media; observe user’s satisfaction about existing Social Media tools at DUL; identify the obstacles about the usage of Social Media during COVID-19 and finally determine the parameters based on respondents view to develop information marketing plan by using Social Media tools.

Design/methodology/approach: For understanding the present …

Impact Of Covid-19 On Academic Libraries: A Case Study, Mohan Tej M, Mahabaleshwara Rao, Shivananda Bhat K

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper aims to find the impact of COVID-19 on Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) libraries and the measures taken to overcome the challenges in accessing the information during the COVID-19 situation and render services to the users. A structured questionnaire was prepared and distributed to ten libraries of MAHE at Manipal, India campus. The study revealed that the COVID-19 pandemic has a significant impact on the usage of resources and services provided by MAHE libraries. The libraries were kept open, but the working hours of the libraries have been reduced during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study found that …

Digitization Of Assamese Literatures: A Descriptive Study Of Internet Archive, Nilakshi Sharma, Prof. S N Singh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Internet Archive is a well-known digital library of Websites, Books, Audio-Video, Softwares and other information media. The Open Library is a project undertaken by the Internet archive to collect books of different subjects of different language from different parts of the world and made it available for user in an open platform. The paper tries to evaluate and analyze the data of Assamese Languages books available in Open Library of Internet Archive. The paper focuses on collection of books according to subject, author, publisher, publication year etc. Total 2753 Assamese Books are archived in Open Library according to its statistics, …

Journal Of Library And Information Science: A Bibliometric Study From 2013-2020, Arun Kumar Research Scholar, Prof. (Dr.) Sarita Verma

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PURPOSE: This study is a bibliometric analysis of the “Journal of Library and Information Science” published between 2013 to 2020. Total number of citations, year-wise distribution, authorship pattern, authors productivity, degree of collaboration of authors are examined.

DESIGN/ RESEARCH METHODOLOGY/ APPROACH: The data for the period of 2013 to 2020 was collected by downloading articles from the Journal of Library and Information Science website http://jlisnet.com. References were arranged in MS Excel worksheet for the study. In this study, Subramanyam’s formula was used for measuring degree of collaboration. Further, collaboration efforts are discussed and examined.

FINDINGS: 89 articles were …

A Webometric Study Of Nigerian Job Search Websites, Samuel Oluranti Oladipupo, Damilola Olanrewaju Lasode, Hafsat Titilade Abdulrahman

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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate Nigerian job search websites using ‘Alexa Internet’ a subsidiary company of Amazon.com which provides commercial web traffic data. It is one of the most well known tools for evaluating websites that offers a free-of-charge evaluation service. This study has been carried out using webometric methods. The 19 leading Nigerian job search websites were taken for evaluation. Each job search website was searched in Alexa databank and relevant data were collected, tabulated and analysed using Microsoft Excel worksheet. The outcome of this study shows that Hot Nigerian Jobs has the highest number of …

Promoting A Policy For Social Media Use In Nigeria, Adetola Akanbiemu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper discusses the development and promotion of social media policy in academic libraries in Nigeria. Academic libraries are charged with the responsibility of supporting their parent organisation in achieving the institutional objectives which involve providing support for research and educational activities. Having such crucial roles to carry out, the use of social media has become a helpful tool in the delivery of services to users. Social Media has provided new opportunities for libraries and librarians in the world. In academic libraries, they are used as a powerful tool for communication by providing an excellent platform for an active and …

Bibliometric Analysis Of Digital Divide Using Web Of Science, Syed Abdul Basit Mr., Shamshad Ahmed Mr., Muhammad Tariq Latif Mr., Muhammad Ajmal Khan Mr., Ayesha Gulzar Miss

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The "digital divide" refers to the gap between those people who have access to information and communication technologies (computer, cellphones, especially smart phones, digital hardware, software and internet) and those who don't. Literature show that digital divide has been explored extensively in different perspectives. The main objective of the current study is to look at the bibliometric examination of research output on the "Digital Divide" literature published in the Web of Science from 1999 to 2021, using bibliometric and visualization techniques. Initially, minimum number of 14 keywords occurrences are selected in which 70 keywords out of 5127 finalized. For the …

Library And Information Science Education In Arunachal Pradesh, Janu Komut

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This article presents an overview of LIS education in Arunachal Pradesh. Arunachal Pradesh (A.P.) has several private universities offering LIS schooling, but no Government authority organizations currently offer LIS. The author further recognizes a few issues concerning LIS schooling in A.P alongside specific ideas for development. The findings suggest that more effort is required to establish LIS education in AP by the authorities of Arunachal Pradesh, Rajiv Gandhi University, Library Association, and LIS Professionals of Arunachal Pradesh to provide stable and quality education in LIS.

Analyzing The Use Of Whatsapp Services By The College Library Professionals To Connect With The Patrons During Covid-19 Pandemic, Pramod Sadanand Kerkar, Keshav Ramesh Dhuri, Jovita Lobo

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

WhatsApp is a MIM application which connects people in real time. It has no additional cost to message and exchange the data between the mobile devices. Libraries can use it as an efficient tool for providing enhanced user services over the Smartphone. Exchange of messages, images, files, audio and video clips has been made much easier and faster thereby aiding in providing effective library services. The research study aims at analyzing the use and application of WhatsApp in the college libraries, its major advantages during pandemic period, its various benefits and difficulties faced by the library professionals while delivering services …